
Source: "Liu Wen Sees Beauty as a Journey, Not a Destination" in Harper's Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a36205161/liu-wen-beauty-issue-may-2021/ (26 April 2021)
Source: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
Source: "Liu Wen Sees Beauty as a Journey, Not a Destination" in Harper's Bazaar https://www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/features/a36205161/liu-wen-beauty-issue-may-2021/ (26 April 2021)
“We should not allow unhealthy ego, pride or greed to overrule our good intention.”
“Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin”
Source: The Waves (1931), p. 224
Context: Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now.
“An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.”
Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007).
2000s
“There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.”
Speech for a Better Together rally in Glasgow on the eve of the Scottish independence referendum, 17 September 2014
Post premiership
“As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind
To look out thorough, and his frailty find. 1”
History of the Civil War (1595), Book iv, Stanza 84, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made", Edmund Waller, Verses upon his Divine Poesy.
Source: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Stars, Like Dust (1951), Chapter 20 “Where?” (p. 166)